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UNDERSTANDING THE EVIL OF INNOVATION

The deen of Islam is complete and perfect

Allaah ta’ala has informed us that He has perfected the Deen (religion: way of life) for us, and as such there is no need for any additions or deletions to or from Islaam: “This day have those who reject faith given up all hope of your religion: yet do not fear them but fear Me.

This Day have I perfected your Deen for you, completed My Favours upon you and have chosen for you lslam as your Deen” (soorah Al-Maa’idah 5:4)

Understanding this aayah (verse) is vital to all combat against innovations and sticking to the revealed way.

 It is failure to appreciate the import of this aayah that enables a sincere person to succumb to innovating and innovatious and it is imperative that a Muslim who cares about saving himself from the Fire does not labour under any misconceptions regarding it.

The famous tafseer (exegesis) of Ibn Katheer quite clearly explains that in the completion and perfection of the Deen lies the greatest blessing which Allaah ta’ala has bestowed upon the Muslim Ummah (nation).

After this there no longer remains any need for a new way, nor of a new Prophet, but all that is Halaal (allo\ved by Allaah) has been n1ade Halaal and all that is Haraam (forbidden by Allaah) has been made Haraam.

The Deen (way of life) contains no falsehood and all we are informed of is correct and true, its orders and prohibitions are fair and accepting the Deen is one’s life makes Allaah be pleased with us and that He loves the Deen (as it is preserved in the Qur’aan and the Sunnah).

Thus the above aayah was revealed so we may be grateful to Allaah and not deviate, having the full salisfaction of possessing tl1e complete manner and the absolutely perfect way to worship Allaah.

This aayah was revealed on the Day of Arafah and no Halaal and Haraam was revealed after it till our Messenger (C)passed away, which was according to the Tafseer of Ibn Jareer eighty-one days after it. When this aayah was revealed, Umar wept, so the Messenger (ti) said to him,

“What 111akes you weep?” He said, “! wept since we used to be in receipt of increase in our Deen, however, if it is completed, then that which is co,nplete can only decrease (thereafter).” So he (ii) said, “You have spoken truthfully.”

Umar understood that if the revelation has ceased concerning recomn1endation, command and prohibition pertaining to worshipping, then the Messenger (ti) was soon to leave this world, and how true he was in observing that only decrease in guidance can take place is borne out by the fulfilment of the Hadeeth where the Messenger (ii) informed us, “Verily Islam, began as a stranger and will return as a stranger therefore give glad tidings to the strangers.”

Now it has become a struggle to practice the Sunnah since it is looked upon by the vast majority to be an oddity at best and on the other scale something to be covered up for the sake of practice as established by a particular school of thought.

 Reinforcing the Sunnah is taken as an affront to civilisation and the culture of the Muslims, and the one blindly following his mentor resents it as an attack upon his “religion”! Innovations have lodged itself so strongly that countering then1 with the Sunnah is widely hated and deplorable terms are coined to label those who in their humble ways try to revive the way of the Messenger  so their efforts can be rendered ineffective, but the sublime way of the Messenger (cannot be dimmed by their transparent lies.

The people and their favourite condescending “scholars” have simply not cared to do justice to this aayah.

Even the accursed Jews recognised the significance of this aayah and thus approached Umar and exclaimed, as occurs in Bukhaaree, “You read a verse which if it had been revealed lo us we would have taken it as an ‘Eid (a public holiday for celebralions).”

So Umar said, “l know when it was revealed and where it was revealed and where the Messenger was when it was revealed: The day of Arafah -and by AJ/aah I was al Arafah.” In a sin1ilar narration in Musnad Ahmad, Umar further states that it was in the evening of Arafah being the Day of Jumu’ah. Alee said, “This aayah was revealed to the A1essenger (ls) while he ·was slanding in the evening (between Asr and Maghrib) of Ara/ah.” (reported by lbn Mardawaih)

Don’t you see? The Companions knew the exact time and place of the revelation of the aayah which favoured the1n with the assurance and approval of Allaah of having the complete and perfect Deen, a favour from the Lord of the ,vorlds which is enviable to the extreme for a nation, a fact to give rise to justified hope and exuberant joy in the hearts and minds of people of that nation, yet, for all that it constituted and all the above and more so that even the ,vretched Je\\’S recognised and envied it, the Companions did not innovate and do anything special to commen1orate this great honour.

Doing so would have made them violate the very truth of this aayah and would have been an act.

 so perverse as to make them do something tantamount to denying the verse and give precedence to their own desires, something which the noble Companions, were very far from ever doing at any time unlike so many of us today.

Islaa1n covers every aspect of life and the Deen has not left us in the dark in any of our affairs. That it also teaches us how to fulfil every department of life is acknowledged by every Muslim except he who is absolutely uneducated and wishes to have it his own way.

The person who does not want to follow his vain desires but seeks to be ennobled by the Su1u1ah which nurtures and brings out the very best of being human does not but crave to practice the Sunnah, and this Sunnah teaches us even the way to relieve ourselves from the call of nature, the way to go to sleep and awake, the way to bathe and dress, the way to procreate, in fact everything, Alhan1dulillaah.

Every matter has been left,with clear instn1ctions as to what is permitted or prohibited in then1 and again, the malevolent Jews recognised this too, and taunted the believers ,with their sneering statements and Questions about what they thought were belittling aspects of the Deen of Islam.

Abdur-Rahmaan ibn Zayd related that the Jews said to Salrnaan al-Faarsee: “Your Prophet teaches you everything  even how to